Snakeplan

May 13th, 2009

What’s Snakeplan?

Snakeplan is a port of the sadly unmaintained XPlanner tool for project planning and tracking. We plan to begin by producing a workalike for XPlanner and then extend it and add some shiny new hotness.

Why?

We really like what XPlanner can do. But we also really want some stuff that it can’t do, and to make it do that stuff we’d rather do it in Python than go through all the IDE wrangling that we’d need to develop on XPlanner ourselves.

Plus, at least these days, deploying a Python web app is a lot, lot more fun than getting XPlanner up and running.

As for the name… It was briefly going to be called “PyXPlanner” (too many syllables, too boring, too much pressing the shift key). We flirted for a while with “Snakes on a Plan” before we realized that Snakes on a Plane jokes might be getting a little old. We briefly considered shortening that to “SNoaP” (which reminded us uncomfortably of both “Zope” and “SOAP”) and “Snap” (already used by at least six or seven various other projects, including a web app framework).

Code and Stuff

You can now grab a branch and start tinkering! Fire up Mercurial and grab a clone of http://bitbucket.org/mcrute/snakeplan.

Please submit patches to the mailing list for review. Things that will help your patch get accepted (faster) include:

  • Consistency with PEP-8
  • Tests (we really like Nose)
  • A good pylint score
  • Bribes

Mailing List

Want to discuss Snakeplan? Suggest ideas for its improvement? Submit patches? Join the mailing list. Easy peasy!

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